March 5, 2015
March Events
By Eloise Graham
Editor-in-Chief
March is National Women’s History Month. Every year the National Women’s History Project selects a unifying theme to be shared with all who want to promote women’s history. This year’s theme presents the opportunity to weave women’s stories – individually and collectively – into the essential fabric of our nation’s history. The theme: Weaving the Stories of Women’s lives.
The year 2015 is also the 35th anniversary of National Women’s History month. The stories of women’s lives, and the choices they made, encourage girls and young women to think larger and bolder, and give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience. There is a real power in hearing women’s stories, both personally and in a larger context.
Remembering and recounting tales of our ancestors’ talents, sacrifices, and commitments inspires today’s generations and opens the way to the future. One such historical figure was Abigail Adams in her quest for the right to vote. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment [instigate, agitate or incite] a rebellion, and not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
March Madness – NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament The 2015 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament will involve 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament) to determine the national champion of men’s NCAA Division I college basketball. It is scheduled to begin on March 17, 2015, and will end with the championship game on April 6 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Pending any changes to the current format, a total of 68 teams will enter the 2015 tournament. Thirty-one of the 32 automatic bids teams will be given to the program that wins their conference tournament. The remaining automatic bid will go to the Ivy League regular season champion. They do not hold a conference tournament. The remaining 36 teams will be granted “at-large” bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
Eight teams—the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams—will play in the First Four. The winners of these games advance to the main draw of the tournament. The Selection Committee will also seed the entire field from 1 to 68.
